Haven't played for about two weeks and decided to give the game another go. Tried to update the files and got the same error. I uninstalled the game about three times, once uninstalling the glyph launcher, with the same result.

Cannot be stressed enough. I used to have an intense period of lag during gaming around sunset and never thought anything about it until I was digging through the settings. Not only does it look better (can't even tell when it goes into F.lux mode), but it also prevents the confusion of a 20 second virus scan lag.

Premium users get China Rising two weeks ahead of even Deluxe users (package that comes with China Rising DLC). This means that non-premium members currently do not have China Rising. So, instead of giving you a warning when you don't have it, it just crashes. Most of the time when I pressed Play Now, it would put me into a China Rising game so I just use the server browser. Really stupid idea by devs.